Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

My head spins. One moment I'm told I'm too edgy, then people say I'm too angry, then that I show too much passion... make your minds up.

The UK is not going to leave the European Union. Of course not. We are inextricably wound up with Europe. In terms of culture, history and geography, we are a European nation.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

Do I get up every morning and ask: am I doing the things that I believe in and am I doing them for the best possible motives? Yes. Unambiguously yes.

You see people literally in a different galaxy who are paying extraordinarily low rates of tax.

What we should be doing in the EU as a whole is more economic integration in the single market, rather than less.

Voters tell politicians what they want through the ballot box. Constantly second-guessing them by speculating whether the parties should gang up on each other misses the point.

I say this as a young dad seeing children going into primary school: I don't think we should underestimate the formative effect on a child of those first years in primary school.

Growth that lasts does not threaten our children's future. It recognises that our planet is a gift that must be cherished. That tomorrow is our responsibility as much as today.

Deep pain awakens the pleasure of wonder.

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper.

Once I started singing, I didn't have to try to be cool. I was just one of the coolest guys around.

If I had gone ahead and died ten years ago, I'd probably be a cult figure today.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

Sometimes we make decisions about our life and they feel like the right decision at the time. No, they are the right decision at the time. But that doesn't mean they'll be the right decision forever.

Empathy is the main thing, putting yourself in somebody else's shoes and trying not to judge.

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours.

I think I would abolish schools which systematically inculcate sectarian beliefs.

The rules are all wrong today. The mandate of the media really does pre-date the founding of the United States.